Today, we are excited to announce the support for IPv6 in all our
zones. You can now add an IPv6 public address on a new instance or
an existing one, without the need for a reboot.

Be sure to update your security groups if you want to accept incoming
connections on the public IPv6 address in addition to the IPv4 public
address. For Windows and OpenBSD, you need to disable the privacy
extensions: they make the IPv6 address unpredictable which makes it
difficult for us to push your packets.

If you wonder why you would need to use IPv6, one reason is to ensure
you can reach your users with the most optimized path. Many mobile
providers are migrating to an IPv6-only network. When a user of such a
network is requesting a resource available only via IPv4, their IPv6
packets are usually transformed by a specific equipment, increasing
latency and reducing reliability. If the resource is available through
IPv6, there is no such problem.

When requesting a public IPv6 address for an instance, you get a fixed
IP allocated from a /64 tied to your organization. In the future, we
will allow you to request a /112 for each instance, which will be
useful to get end-to-end connection between your Kubernetes
containers.

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